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10<br />
The Week That Was<br />
City News<br />
G PLUS AUG 09 - AUG 15, 2014<br />
Plea to name Ghy railway station<br />
after Bhupen Hazarika<br />
Street plays staged on ragging<br />
All Assam Students Union<br />
has conveyed an appeal<br />
to the Home Minister<br />
Rajnath Singh to name Guwahati<br />
railway station after legendary<br />
singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika.<br />
The students’ body took<br />
forward the plea when an AASU<br />
delegation met Union railway<br />
minister DV Sadananda Gowda<br />
and apprised him about the constraint<br />
the state had been facing<br />
due to lack of broad gauge double<br />
line. They also asked him to<br />
City to get 14<br />
public toilets<br />
expedite broad gauge double line<br />
construction in the state. The<br />
students’ body also urged Gowda<br />
to restructure the boundary<br />
of the NF Railway by covering<br />
only the north-eastern state in<br />
order to give more emphasis for<br />
expansion of the rail connectivity<br />
to all the north-eastern states.<br />
The AASU delegation raised<br />
their long pending demand of<br />
establishing an integral coach<br />
factory in Bongaigaon district.<br />
34 cases of<br />
illegal parking<br />
detected<br />
In a bid to highlight the malevolence<br />
of ragging and to voice<br />
against this stigma of the education<br />
institutes, members of the All<br />
Guwahati Students’ Union (AGSU)<br />
and the Cotton College unit of AASU<br />
and student-artistes of Cotton College<br />
staged street-plays on August 1 st<br />
in several colleges of the city. The student-artistes<br />
staged the street-plays in<br />
the campuses of Handique Girls’ College,<br />
Cotton College, Guwahati Commerce<br />
College and B Borooah College,<br />
drawing attention and applause of the<br />
students. The activity continued for<br />
the next day in other colleges of the<br />
Administration asks GMC to<br />
clear drains<br />
city. The students’ body also urged the<br />
college authorities to be watchful and<br />
strict in bringing down the incidents<br />
of ragging. AGSU stated that ragging<br />
breaks down a student both mentally<br />
and morally and nothing but strict<br />
vigilance and awareness can only<br />
combat ragging.<br />
Teachers,<br />
workers<br />
demand job<br />
regularisation<br />
Kamrup (Metro) district administration<br />
has finally selected<br />
locations across the city<br />
to set up public toilets. Altogether<br />
14 locations have been selected in<br />
three revenue circles in the city and<br />
neighbouring areas. Accordingly,<br />
toilets will be installed at Jalukbari<br />
Charilai, Adabari, Maligaon, Bharalu<br />
(Guwahati circle), Khanapara, Beltola<br />
Bazaar, Basistha Charilai, GMCH<br />
(Dispur circles), Garal Bazaar, Bhattapara<br />
Chowk and Bhattapara PHE<br />
(Azara circle) besides three other<br />
places. “The GMC has been given the<br />
responsibility to construct and maintain<br />
the toilets. The process will take<br />
an approximate six months” said Kamrup<br />
(Metro) deputy commissioner<br />
M Angamuthu. Earlier, Gauhati High<br />
Court had issued notices to the state<br />
government, Guwahati Municipal<br />
Corporation (GMC) and Guwahati<br />
Metropolitan Development Authority<br />
(GMDA) to respond to a PIL that<br />
had prayed for adequate arrangements<br />
for separate public lavatories<br />
for women in the city. The GMC in<br />
another development move, has decided<br />
to install toilets and develop<br />
parking lots under the flyovers in the<br />
city to utilize the open spaces for public<br />
use.<br />
In a massive drive against<br />
the illegal parking on the<br />
city roads on August 2nd,<br />
34 cases with other issues under<br />
the Motor Vehicle Act were<br />
detected by the newly formed<br />
mobile squad of the Kamrup<br />
Metro District Administration,<br />
National Highways Authority<br />
of India (NHAI) and<br />
the DTO at the National Highway<br />
37 in the Khanapara to<br />
Jalukbari stretch in the city.<br />
The squad collected penalty<br />
amounting to a total of `19,500<br />
from the violators and also detained<br />
five trucks.<br />
Guwahati Municipal Corporation<br />
(GMC) has been<br />
directed to clear the drains<br />
from Christian Basti to Bharalu<br />
River in an order by the Kamrup<br />
Metro district administration to<br />
undertake a massive drain clearing<br />
exercise in the city. Kamrup<br />
Metro Deputy Commissioner Dr<br />
Angamuthu, after visiting the<br />
Bhangagarh Chariali area found<br />
that the drains of that area are congested<br />
and get frequently inundated<br />
during rains, therefore decided to<br />
clear the drainage system is blocked<br />
at many places. The cleaning drive<br />
was also taken out in Anil Nagar,<br />
Nabin Nagar and other nearby<br />
localities. On the other hand, the<br />
anti-encroachment drive in the city<br />
has completed one month on August<br />
1st with the eviction carried<br />
out at bye-lane number 2 and 3 at<br />
Anil Nagar. A total of 12 concrete<br />
slabs were demolished during the<br />
drive to clear obstruction to the<br />
outflow of rainwater.<br />
GU turns against ex-students in hostels<br />
The authority of Gauhati<br />
University is all set to take<br />
strong action against the<br />
university passed out students<br />
who are still staying in the varsity<br />
hostels. Sources in the university<br />
said around 30 to 40 ex-students<br />
are staying in the GU hostels although<br />
they work somewhere or<br />
study in other institutions, but<br />
to save money stay at the varsity<br />
hostels. According to the reports,<br />
the university authority is going<br />
to stop the age old practice of university<br />
by monitoring activities in<br />
the hostels and pay surprise visits<br />
to search ex-students still occupying<br />
hostel seats. Officials of the<br />
university will have the keys of the<br />
hostel rooms with them as well so<br />
that surprise visits can be paid to<br />
nab the errant students. A senior<br />
official of GU said that from August<br />
itself, monitoring of the hostels<br />
will be made strict. HK Nath,<br />
secretary of the university classes<br />
said, “Unauthorized stay is not an<br />
issue in the girls’ hostels. We have<br />
noticed this illegal practice only in<br />
the boys’ hostels”.<br />
Seeking the job security<br />
and solution to many<br />
other problems, members<br />
of at least seven organizations<br />
of teachers and<br />
health workers staged a protest<br />
demonstration against<br />
the government at Dispur<br />
Last Gate on August 5th. The<br />
state government had 384<br />
multi-purpose health workers<br />
in 2009. They were asked<br />
to work on a contractual basis<br />
at the rate of `6,000 per<br />
month for six months. Now,<br />
they are appealing for regularization<br />
of their jobs. Organizations<br />
of teachers of lower<br />
primary schools and secondary<br />
schools, among others,<br />
also voiced to regularize jobs.<br />
Siddique Ali, secretary of All<br />
Assam Contractual MPW<br />
(M) Employees Union said<br />
that they have been requesting<br />
the state government to<br />
fulfil their demands but the<br />
government is not showing<br />
any concern towards them,<br />
which has forced the protest<br />
for rights. Lack of proper vaccination<br />
and required steps to<br />
tackle the Japanese Encephalitis<br />
was among the reasons to<br />
protest.
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